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6 December, 2024 • Bel Parker

“The Small Clay Plate”—a Siwa folk tale

A tale of a tailor from the deserts of Siwa, Egypt, where fortune reveals the invaluable lesson of recognizing what is truly precious.

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4 June, 2023 • Ali Al-Jamri

An Island Without a Sea: Bahrain Odyssey

UK-based poet and editor of Between Two Islands, Ali Al-Jamri takes us on a Bahrain journey.

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4 June, 2023 • Karim Goury

The Majesty and Mystery of Nature: Ali Cherri’s Dam in Sudan

Karim Goury reviews Ali Cherri's haunting feature film The Dam, set in Sudan before the outbreak of the war this year.

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4 June, 2023 • Dror Shohet

Alien Entities in the Desert

Dror Shohet recalls her otherworldly journey in the desert with her Bedouin guide, Hafez, and a caravan of camels.

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4 June, 2023 • Safae Daoudi

Olafur Eliasson’s Curious Desert Contrasts Qatar and Iceland

Safae Daoudi takes in the scope of Scandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson's Curious Desert exhibition in Doha.

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25 July, 2022 • Mara Ahmed

Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s “Dasht-e-Tanhai”—A Desert Soundscape

Multimedia artist Mara Ahmed translates and reads Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Urdu classic, composed while in prison.

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15 June, 2022 • Bakytiyar Ali

Bakhtiyar Ali: “The Prisoner and the Plague”

From one of the most prominent contemporary authors and poets from Iraqi Kurdistan comes an unforgettable tale of oppression, and freedom.

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15 June, 2022 • Karim Kattan

Karim Kattan: “The Gravedigger”

The trilingual Palestinian novelist and short story writer weaves an engaging tale of love, death and redemption.

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22 November, 2021 • Deborah Williams

Traveling in Contentious Spaces — Saudi Arabia

When friends in Abu Dhabi asked Deborah Williams how she could support MBS by going to “his” festival, she didn’t have an answer, only another question: how do we draw the lines around where we will or won’t go?

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